Lead Network Engineer Resume Palm Beach Gardens, FL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

17 - year IT veteran who brings success in the administration, optimization and monitoring of SOX & PCI-compliant infrastructure that is built on Windows, VMware, and Linux environments. Leads company-wide deployments of industry-leading Cisco devices across multiple active datacenters and satellite offices. 9+ years of experience mentoring team members and managing IT budget for datacenter equipment

SKILLS

Network: UDP, ARP, NAT, HSRP, ICMP DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, FTP, VPN, SMTP, SNMP, SMB, Wi-Fi, RDP, MPLS, SAN, CDN

Devices: Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewalls, IPS & UCS • F5 Load Balancers • Juniper Firewalls

Monitoring: WhatsUp Gold, SolarWinds, Gomez Dynatrace Monitoring; DataDog; and Catchpoint

Virtualization: VMware vSphere & Hyper-V

Cloud Services: Amazon AWS (VPC, S3, Direct Connect, L2L VPN), Intermedia Cloud (Exchange Cloud Services)

MSFT Servers: Exchange Server 2013, 2010 & 2007, Project Server

MSFT OS: Windows Server 2012R2, 2008, IIS Administration, Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell

EXPERIENCE

Lead Network Engineer

Confidential,Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Key Duties

Manage and maintain NetApp SAN FAS 3240 in Atlanta, GA and Englewood, CO
Ensures information security by scanning datacenter perimeter using Qualys Guard scanner and remediates escalated vulnerabilities
Passed all Sarbanes - Oxley (SOX) audits (quarterly & annual); maintains PCI Compliance
Collaborates with Development and QA to build new infrastructure as needed; virtual servers, added storage, etc.
Create weekly report for C-level that details infrastructure health, security and future plans
Monitors performance using WhatsUp Gold for internal applications; SolarWinds for infrastructure, such as NetApp SANs, firewalls, Nexus switches and use Gomez Dynatrace Monitoring/Catchpoint for external monitoring of websites
Manage Akamai CDN to deliver automatic failover and maintain uptime in the event of a failure or DDOS attack
Attends weekly Agile standup meetings to capture upcoming IT projects; sends team member to gather new project details
VMWare vSphere virtual server migration that enabled the deployment and provisioning of applications within 20 minutes;reduced costs by shrinking the datacenter footprint from 13 cabinets to 7 cabinets.
Migrated to EMC DataDomain backup from a tape solution; reduced OPEX and reduced backup window by 80%.
Setup direct connect links from our Datacenters into Amazon AWS private VPC’s.
Architected the move to private datacenter cage from a community space at both atlanta and englewood datacenters with zero down time; worked with DataCenter management to run fiber cross connect into the private cage; completed unit-by-unit move for all 13 cabinets.
Implemented networking devices, such as Nexus Switches, Cisco FirePower IPS, Cisco UCS and F5 Load Balancers
Migrated Juniper Firewalls to Cisco ASA at 4 remote offices and 2 datacenters, with zero downtime.
Migrated entire company from on premise Exchange server to cloud base exchange with Intermedia
Migrated several windows IIS 7.0 websites to Amazon AWS, static sites were migrated to S3 bucket, while dynamic sites were migrated to IIS AMI builds.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential,Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Migrated to a Cisco ASA Firewall from legacy Netscreen NS208 Firewalls at all five remote offices and two active data centers
Managed application deployments, such as APIs and new websites
Managed Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and all Group Policy Objects
Managed Xiotech 4D SAN and Dell EqualLogic SAN

System Engineer

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Managed Exchange migration by creating multiple recipient policies that integrated with OU's in AD, filtered email, minimized downtime, logged activity and monitored health (e.g. queue length, CPU/HDD/RAM) via native functionality
Configured Exchange via (1) storage groups to use internal database and transaction log storage, (2) server health monitoring, (3) RPC over HTTP & (4) public storage for the remote (India) Customer Service Team
Implemented Active Directory in a global environment; setup global file servers using Windows Server DFS
Deployed a backup solution using a tape library for Exchange Server, SQL Server and intelligent disaster recovery
Rolled out Cisco Routers and PIX firewall to four remote locations, including site-to-site VPN tunnel setup
Checkpoint Firewall NG security policies and configured user-to-site VPN accounts

Network Administrator

Confidential, Pearl River, NY

Setup user and email accounts as well as defined group definitions on Exchange servers.
Installed and configured WINS, DHCP and DNS.
Troubleshot TCP/IP conflicts, wiring, and VLAN configurations.
Administered and installed servers, including domain user accounts, global domain users.
Maintained user accounts and security by granting or deny access to resources per HR requirements.

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